The Guardian for this interrupted/shortened meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Riddle Sideways: thank you, Listener Master
ElanVitalo Resident: 's current display-name is "Elan".
Riddle Sideways: welcome Elan
Riddle Sideways: are those roller shoes that allow you to skate around
ElanVitalo Resident: Good morning, Riddle.
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ElanVitalo Resident: I think they are ice skates, actually.
Riddle Sideways: ice skates for warm ground?
Riddle Sideways: oh well, what is in a name

ElanVitalo Resident: Yes, isn't it wonderful what AI can come up with!
Riddle Sideways: just saw that they were lots of emails about AI and yesterday's session
ElanVitalo Resident: Yes!
ElanVitalo Resident: It was a good intro session on the topic, I felt.
ElanVitalo Resident: Do you know about Singularity 1 on 1?
ElanVitalo Resident: The website?
Riddle Sideways: ty, no, and probably should not read it now
Riddle Sideways: did read a lot of wikipedia yesterday after the session
ElanVitalo Resident: nods. Another excellent website for on-going AI stuff is http://techemergence.com/
ElanVitalo Resident: The moderators of both of these sites interview current "bigwigs" in AI research.
ElanVitalo Resident: Fascinating stuff to listen to while I'm out for walks.
Riddle Sideways: ah, Bruce emailed many of the URLs that I was collecting
ElanVitalo Resident: Yeah, he does that a lot.
Riddle Sideways: for completeness, here are some others
Riddle Sideways: re: chatbots: http://whitepapers.virtualprivatelib...0Resources.pdf

ElanVitalo Resident: Brucie is at his morning meditation group right now, but he'll join us at 20 after the hour.
Riddle Sideways: many are old and dead
ElanVitalo Resident: Oh great! Thanks!
Riddle Sideways: ok
Riddle Sideways: however, you might be more the expert on AI
ElanVitalo Resident: OH NO! Not I!
ElanVitalo Resident: So, I am fascinated by your chatbot project.
ElanVitalo Resident: Perhaps you could say some more about it?
ElanVitalo Resident: (I notice that the link you just gave is all about chatbots.)
Riddle Sideways: well chatbots are not defined as AI (mostly)
Riddle Sideways: CleverBot that Aph was mentioning is stated as trying to be AI
ElanVitalo Resident listens carefully.... They are more like the "Eliza" program of long ago?
Riddle Sideways: but expanding Alice type AIML is not really learning
ElanVitalo Resident: Cleverbots have "learning algorithms" in their software?
Riddle Sideways: Eliza (not our friend here) was one of the first chat bots
ElanVitalo Resident: Ahh, yes.
Riddle Sideways: it [Eliza] seemed to always want to come back to asking about your mother :)
ElanVitalo Resident: My typist wrote his own "Eliza" program long ago.
Riddle Sideways: so did my typist :)
Riddle Sideways: Alice got much better
ElanVitalo Resident: It refused to discuaa anything but Shakespeare's Hamlet, about which it THOUGHT it was an "expert," ha ha.
ElanVitalo Resident: discuss*
Riddle Sideways: and many other chatbots were born off the Eliza and then Alice code/ideas and foundation
ElanVitalo Resident: It was a sort of mesh between a chatbot and an expert system.
ElanVitalo Resident: Can you say more about "Alice"? I don't think I know about that.
Riddle Sideways: btw - there is a HAL bot the thinks it is Shakespeare and only discusses the plays
ElanVitalo Resident: Wow. Cool.
ElanVitalo Resident: When we talk about
Riddle Sideways: think it probably is spelled A.L.I.C.E.
Riddle Sideways: but ...
ElanVitalo Resident: AI," we tend to treat it as if it were one big thing - when actually is is a host of very specific tools geared to very specific problems.
ElanVitalo Resident looks up A.L.I.C.E.
ElanVitalo Resident: http://alice.pandorabots.com/
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Riddle Sideways: yes and yes
ElanVitalo Resident: :) and :)
Riddle Sideways: Pandorabots are still active and is on many websites
Riddle Sideways: as greeters and sales and support
ElanVitalo Resident: Does ALICE require "natural language" software?
Riddle Sideways: Botty is based on a Pandorbot
ElanVitalo Resident: Ahhhh! I see!
ElanVitalo Resident: How does ALICE fit in with the open-source Watson software?
Riddle Sideways: hold on.. while loooking in inventory
ElanVitalo Resident: kk, take your time.
Riddle Sideways: and we need to get to that
ElanVitalo Resident: "Patience" is a skill I'm trying to learn....
Riddle Sideways: you calculate so fast it is hard to wait for the meat to search thru inventories :)
Riddle Sideways: note: this inventory is a huge mess
Riddle Sideways: ah
ElanVitalo Resident: oh dear.
Riddle Sideways: in SL: Pandorabot METAbolt Add-on
ElanVitalo Resident: Well, it's good practice for me to wait. . .
ElanVitalo Resident listens.
Riddle Sideways: starter kit sold by "The Truth & Beauty Lab"
       There is also "ActorBot" in SL and a METAbolt Add-on for ActorBot at Truth & Beauty Lab.
          Confusing/Complicated: AliceB Resident is many things: an Alt and an ActorBot object and a METAbolt for ActorBot

Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
Riddle Sideways: that is from wence Botty started
Riddle Sideways: hiYa bRuce
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Riddle. Hi, Elan.
Bruce Mowbray: (Elan has just given me all of his notes on this conversation -- so no need to satch me up.)
ElanVitalo Resident: Heay, Brucie.
Riddle Sideways: good, ty Elan
ElanVitalo Resident: yw.

ElanVitalo Resident: oooops. Looks like we're going to get kicked out....
Bruce Mowbray: So soon, too.
Riddle Sideways: when Botty sees a "what is ..." question the code goes to Wolfram instead of Pandorbot
Riddle Sideways: o dear
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, oh dear is right.
Riddle Sideways: in 251 sec
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I guess we'll just continue this at the 1 p.m. session.
Riddle Sideways: and we had not gotten back to Alice
Bruce Mowbray: Hate to just come and go, but seems SL has other ideas.
Riddle Sideways: http://www.alicebot.org/articles/wallace/eliza.html
ElanVitalo Resident: Bye for now, Bruce and Riddle.
ElanVitalo Resident: See you later, I hope.
Riddle Sideways: will return in 10 or so
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ElanVitalo Resident: ahhh, thaks for that link, Riddle.
Riddle Sideways: bye for now
ElanVitalo Resident: Bye for now.